Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] 20 [degrees] Friday, Dec. 10, 1915 [December 10, 1915] Wea [Weather]
Council meeting Nuttall Club
considers publishing Umbagog Birds Fine
  Clear & cold with high N.W. [northwest] wind.
Ground hard frozen & coated thinly
almost everywhere with snow or ice.
Thus really wintry conditions are begun at last.
  In Garden: a Chickadee (at suet), a
Golden-crest [Golden-crested Wren] heard, 2 or 3 House Sparrows
seen. Percy saw 2 Flickers, Gilbert [Robert A. Gilbert] a Hairy W. [Hairy Woodpecker].
  Spent day in Museum, writing letters
in forenoon, going over Umbagog M.S. [Umbagog manuscript]
in afternoon preparatory to presenting
facts and estimates regarding it at a
meeting of Council of Nuttall Club this
evening attended by Jeffries, Batchder [Charles Foster Batchelder], Bangs [Outram Bangs],
Walter Deane, G.M. Allen, F.H. Allen &
Mr. Bosson [Campbell Bosson]. Thus we had all the
members present save Townsend. They
met in my study where I put on the
open fire an oak block from one of the
rafters of our old barn. We discussed
ways & means of publication until nearly 11.
They finally voted unanimously to undertake
publication & appropriated $1200. with the
understanding that I contribute $1000. towards
the cost of the first volume & perhaps
something more for the second if there is one.
We ate many big apples from the Farm.

Cambridge.
Ther [Thermometer] Saturday, Dec. 11, 1915 [December 11, 1915] Wea [Weather]
16 [degrees] & 24 [degrees] C. [Caroline Brewster] returns from Boston. Fine
Clear and cold with high, keen N.W. [northwest] wind.
  In Garden: 2 [male] Red-bellied Nuthatch & a
Chickadee visiting suet hanging near Museum study
window, the former bird carrying off many small
pieces of the suet, the latter surprising me
by singing rather freely giving the phoe-bee notes
as loudly & sweetly as they are ever uttered in spring.
Shortly after this (at 9.30 A.M.) 2 Jays appeared
in the shrubbery close to the window where
they perched motionless side by side in the
wan sunlight, sheltered by the building from
the chill northerly wind. There were also
a [male] Downy and 2 Crows flitting through
the Jungle about the same time and
half a dozen House Sparrows around
the place all day. A Golden-crest [Golden-crested Wren] heard
in the lilacs completes the list of species noted.
  I spent the day in Museum looking
over Umbagog M.S. [Umbagog manuscript] and adding to the
Introduction a freshly composed page.
  C. returned from the Abbotsford at noon,
receiving a tumultuous welcome from both 
the dogs. We had Victrola music and reading
aloud in the hall this evening.